Zivota Panic

Zivota Panic (3 November 1933-19 November 2003) was Defense Minister of Yugoslavia from 8 to 20 May 1992 (succeeding Blagoje Adzic) and Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army from 8 May 1992 to 26 August 1993 (succeeding Blagoje Adzic and preceding Momcilo Perisic).

Biography
Zivota Panic was born in Gornja Crnisava, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1933,  and he joined the Yugoslav People's Army in 1952. From the 1970s to the 1980s, he rose in the ranks of the JNA, rising from being a tank commander to being a Colonel General in the early 1990s. Panic commanded the 1st Army District in Belgrade in 1991, and he commanded the Yugoslav forces during the Battle of Vukovar. In 1992, he became Chief of the General Staff of the JNA and Defense Minister, and he retired in 1993 amidst power struggles in Belgrade. He died in Belgrade in 2003.